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Windows 7: Unable to activate System Restore

I don't know if this was an issue before installing SP1, but afterward I happened to notice it. I went to Control Panel > System > Advanced system settings > System Properties > System Protection. The list of available drives looked like this:

Thanks, whs. It's good that I can do those things, at least I know that system restore is working as it should, but now I'd like to find out what's causing the problem as described in my opening post. Any ideas?

PSU n/a Hard Drives 750GB Seagate internal
Sundry external drives attached to other computers on the local network Internet Speed as much as I can get - usually on a dongle, so <1Mb/s Antivirus MSE Browser IE10/Chrome/FF(if I must)

PSU n/a Hard Drives 750GB Seagate internal
Sundry external drives attached to other computers on the local network Internet Speed as much as I can get - usually on a dongle, so <1Mb/s Antivirus MSE Browser IE10/Chrome/FF(if I must)

Tried your method, NoelDP, but no go. So I switched off monitoring of OS (C:) (Missing), which made it disappear entirely, and now I can set the Max Usage setting with no errors. Very odd. Thanks for the nudge in the right direction.

PSU n/a Hard Drives 750GB Seagate internal
Sundry external drives attached to other computers on the local network Internet Speed as much as I can get - usually on a dongle, so <1Mb/s Antivirus MSE Browser IE10/Chrome/FF(if I must)

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